Wardrobe rack



I. EVERITT. wARnRoBE RACK. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5, 1920.

Patented June 20, 1922.

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WAR'DROBE RACK. APPLlcAloN FILED JUNE s. 1920.

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Beit .known that I, JAMES Evnnrr'r, jectof 'the King. of Greatritaim residing natu-.1 9 zLever Street, yGoswell Road, London, intheucounty of Middlesex, England,

have invented certain newand useful Inut lrr9releeritsin Wrdrbeks', (for rWhilrrh Fsurf is' a -pll hvew., ,I have receivedpate'nt in Great BritaimiN'o. i'

Figure-3 is /af P1511 VT-lewof inventiin Sub.' .ilkeDIQm beneath.

Figure 4 isa detallof thel hanger connec I v y appliedto a-Lwa'rdrfoel l 111,27), May .1914);,of which thefollow- 10 lieg isa s pectn f The invention refers tothe hanging ,of f ffclothingfronr a barrod..or tube vin ward- -riobesitrunka .Wer-eliOliSS.. and. Such like, .and

has Vfor its object to vprovide a railway for f a plurality Aof g article hangers or runners which is so constructed as to .becapable of 65' y 111 Fig-'14s hun.a- Sdaaelevateneffe clothes hanging tubefor'me'd of'` two parts la and 2 ,1.1ineGd.. together at (i. The part 'S fixed'. et' t0A Surface er' si'pt .and .is the fxedpart ofthe hanger tube, tafi'dthejti `part c is'the extensible oneswingingdown"1 sri. S4. I QPMQENT y Figure 7 is endostatin @faQ-device folding when notin vuse to reducethe overall length thereof and cnt iisilofle.y to maximum length when desired for -the purpose'of more separately supporting such runners.

According to the invention such a bar or tube is built up of two or more hinged to-V gether parts adapted to open out and form a rigid length and to fold to reduce the4 length, the one end of said bar or tube being rigidly attached to a suitable surface or support preferably the interior space of a wardrobe opened by a front door, the foldable extension swinging down when the door is closed to lie slightly inwards of said door. The foldable extension may be fastened to the fixedpart of said bar or tube by a catch device which may be either hand operated or automatic in action, or in the'case of a wardrobe or the like said extension may be supported by a bracket or othercontrivance carried upon the inside of the wardrobe door. Said bar or tube may be fitted witha pullout device in the form of a movable abutment moving to a position at the extreme inner end of the rod or tube and behind all thev garments, and extending forwardly by side rods to the eXtreme front of the fixed portion of the bar or tube, so that a handpull on this pull-out device when thev bar or tube is extended collectively pulls out the garment Suspenders or runners.

The invention is represented diagrammatically by the accompanying drawings in various forms differing only in constructional details, in whichg 1 Figure l shows a side elevation of my invention. v v

Figure 2 is a cross sectional detail of the clothes hanger tube.

for shearing the ansiedad-ae position indicate@ 1 byi the dotted insee and' iff is a mechanical' catchl comprising' flever f2 "5 and stud f3 adapted to engage and hold the eX- 75 tension when in use, `this catchk being hand. operated for engagement and disengagement.

A cross section of the tube is represented Fig-2 suitable for internal runners forming the connectors between the clothesv and the tube, such a form of tube and runners being well known. v 4

Fig. 4 a side elevation detail of how'the extension part 0 swings down and the catch f operates, and with regard to Figs. 2 and 85 3 it may be pointedv out that a3 and c2 are slots in the tube through lwhich a depend` ing portion of each runner projects.y

Fig. 5 shows a similar elevation of Fig.

l but with the extension part c arranged to l swing-upwardly instead of downwardly in which case no mechanical fastening is needed to hold the two parts l.together in af straight line. In this representation a number of runners g are indicated within they tube part a in order to illustrate that a dummy runner g2 at the back of the, whole of the supporting runners is` connected forwardly'by a pull-out device h inthe form ofiside rods connecting at the front h2 and 100- adapted for hand operation when; the extension c is in use to pull the whole of the' runners forward, so that the clothes canv be well separated for inspection and detachment.

Figs. 6 and 7 show the application of" the invention to a ward-robe. Y .The tube parts of the :clothes support yare atl d and c aforesaid and same are hinged together at d in accordance with Figs. 1 to 4, the 110 4ranged to swing either up or down out of end a2 being secured to the back of the Wardrobe space opposite the front door as. This door is; hinged at m2 and opens in the usual Way to open and closethe space y of the Wardrobe, and same may be itted With a bracket s swinging to position as shown in Figs. 6 and 7 tosupport the eX- tension c When yin use, and against they inside of the Wardrobe` door, as Aindicated by the dotted line t. When said extension is folded as represented at w in Fig. 7, this ybracket s being a modilication of the mechanical meanspf, hereinbefore described.

As theslots a3, (a2-of the tube portions a and cl are'underneath'it is possible to additionally support thetube part a by an oblique stay such as Q; shown kin Fig.V 7.

It is to be understood that the preferable form is one extension part such vas c to the supporting rod or tube which can be aruse.

Having now vdescribed my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent'isz- Y n 1. VA Wardrobe rack, comprising a tube formed of a plurality of hinged together parts adapted to open out to form a continued length and to fold to reduce said llength means for fixing one of said parts to Va support so as to carry the other part, de-

vices for rigidly securing the foldable part `'tothe fixed part to make the tube rigid throughout its length and garment carryling runners slidable lengthwisewithin said tube.`

' 2. A wardrobe rack, comprising a tube formed of a plurality of hingedV together parts adapted tov open out to form a continuous length and to fold to reduce` said length, means for iiiXing one of said parts to a support soas to carry theother part,

means for locking said parts rigidly to-V nesses.

. l JAMES EVERITT. Witnesses:

BniAiuRIcn MARY .S'IIiuisoiv7 NELLE 'PEAcoom 

